Only Ann Knows - Baird Smart

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Résumé :
Only Ann KnowsA Horrible Accident or Brilliantly Planned Social Statement Ann Miller still grieves deeply five months after her son and only child was killed during the Virginia Tech mass shooting. A lifelong gun rights advocate, she works passionately as an executive for a gun rights organization, the American Rifle Society. One morning, Miller opens an anonymous package containing an AK-47 assault rifle sent to her ARS department. Entering an executive boardroom to deliver the assault weapon to her boss during a departmental meeting, two handgun shots ring out and she sprays 50 bullets in a matter of seconds killing 13 of her colleagues. Two FBI agents with vastly different personalities and investigative approaches lead the ultra-high-profile investigation to determine if the mass shooting was a horrible accident as Miller contends or a brilliantly planned and executed mass murder to bring worldwide attention to the destructive capability of automatic and semi-automatic weapons like killed her son. As the FBI's investigation fails to uncover evidence that Miller pre-planned the shooting, the ARS spins the mass shooting events to characterize Miller as a mentally ill woman hellbent on avenging her son's death. Having killed everyone in the boardroom, Miller stands trial for 13 first-degree murders as both the perpetrator and only witness. A surprise piece of evidence surfaces at the end of the trial which renders a verdict but still leaves questions unanswered. ...

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Baird Smart grew up in Winnetka, Illinois, a suburb north of Chicago where he graduated from New Trier High School with a strong interest in architecture. He attended the Environmental Design School at the University of Colorado. His second semester senior year he spent on the World Campus Afloat visiting 10 countries in Africa and Asia. During the voyage, he served as photographer for a 40-student excursion into China becoming one of the first Americans to visit mainland China after Nixon opened relations with the Chinese. After graduating with a Bachelor of Environmental Design, Baird pursued his love of storytelling and relocated to Los Angeles where he wrote, produced and directed over a hundred television magazine segments, travel specials and a nationally syndicated documentary for KABC-TV. He moved his young family back to Chicago where Baird produced for a weekly, half-hour, magazine style program for the ABC affiliate, WLS-TV. Over seven years, he wrote and produced a half-hour show every month. He left WLS to start his own company, autumn pictures, where he optioned stories for TV movies and sold the story treatments to network producers in Los Angeles. Simultaneously, he wrote, produced and directed news stories, magazine segments and documentaries for ABC News, ABC Sports, ESPN, NBC News and NBC Sports. He has written 5 feature film screenplays. Along with writing and producing, Baird is a licensed real estate broker in Illinois and works with his two daughters at the Smart LeMire Real Estate Group and Compass. They help clients buy and sell residential real estate on the northside of Chicago and northern suburbs. Only Ann Knows is his first novel....